I just breezed through Illustrated C# 2005, and made a list of language features / concepts that struck me for one reason or another, mostly as a function of being either different from (or similar to!) features in other languages I am already familiar with. ref and out parameters pass value objects into or “out [...]
Just wasted a good chunk of time on an issue I had using Grails – “deleted object would be re-saved by cascade”. Turns out that among the associations you need to remove to clear this error are the bi-directional associations created using belongsTo . I removed belongsTo from the domain object being removed from another [...]
I recently was asked by a friend to help transfer files from a defunct computer to his new laptop. It appeared at the outset this would be a trivial affair; however I soon ran into difficulties. The key issue was that the defunct computer was set up with the Japanese language edition of Windows XP, [...]
UI-Element has been integrated into Selenium Core in the project’s subversion repository for some time now. This means no special tricks are necessary to use it – just specify your map file as a user extension! I’m posting this announcement mainly because it seems my original UI-Element post is at the top of Google’s search [...]
Several people have asked if it is possible to specify user extension Javascript dynamically with the RC, as opposed to on the command line with the -userExtensions flag when starting up the server. It wasn’t possible before. It should be now. If you build from r2291 or greater from the RC trunk, you can play [...]